HIV/AIDS AWARENESS AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

In this paper an attempt has been made to study HIV/AIDS awareness among university students. To achieve this purpose survey method under the descriptive method of research was used. All the students of Himachal Pradesh University constituted the population of the study. To conduct this study a sample 146 students were selected randomly from the department. Keeping in view the nature of the study the investigator used the tool, “HIV/AIDS Awareness Test”, developed and standardized by Singh (2012). The reliability of this tool is 0.89. Since the data from the HIV/AIDS Awareness test was available in the form of scores, so as to find out the significance of difference between the various groups „t‟-test was applied. The findings of the study revealed that gender wise, locality wise, and stream wise, students do not differ significantly in their awareness related to HIV/AIDS.